Seminar series
Date
Mon, 03 Feb 2014
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
C5
Speaker
Simon Myerson
Organisation
Oxford University
In 1997 V. Bentkus and F. Götze introduced a technique for estimating $L^p$ norms of certain exponential sums without needing an explicit estimate for the exponential sum itself. One uses instead a kind of estimate I call a "moat lemma". I explain this term, and discuss the implications for several kinds of point-counting problem which we all know and love.